Bung for beer-barrels.



No. 633,519. Patented Sept. l9, i899.

W. KIRCHHUFF.

BUNG FDR BEER BARRELS.

(Application filed. May 13, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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\VILLIAM KIRGIIHOFF, OF DAYTON, OHIO,

BUNG FOR BEER-BARRELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 633,519, datedSeptember 19, 1899.

Application filed Mayl3, 1899. Serial No. 716,713. (No model.)

1"0 all whom, it may concern: ring projected into the outer diameter ofBe it known thatl, \VILLIAM KIRCHHOFF, a hole B within walls 0, and aring at, projectcitizen of the United States, residing at Dayingoutwardly beyond flat ring 0, of less di- 55 ton, in the county ofMontgomery and State ameter than ring 0, but greater than ring Z).

ofOhio, haveinvented a newand useful Bung D indicates the covering andclamping for Beer-Barrels, of which the following is a plate, of wroughtor malleable iron, having a specification. central opening of greaterdiameter than the My invention relates to beer-barrels, and inside andlesser diameter than the outside 60 more especially tobushingsorliningsforbnng of the outer ring 61 of the packing-ring C and lo andspigot holes of such barrels, the object provided with an annular orring flange E on being to provide a-device of this class which, itsinner surface, whose inner diameter is while being cheap, durable, andeffective in equal to the outer diameter of said outer ring preventingleaking, will afford easy and effid and whose outer diameter is the sameas 65 cient means for inserting spigots or bungs. the diameter of theinner diameter of hole B.

\Vit-h this object in view my invention con- In use the packing-ring Cis placed in the sists in the improved construction, arrangehole B withring in diameter Z) and abutting ment, and combination of partshereinafter against land d, ring 0 in diameter 0 and abutfullydescribed, and afterward specifically ting against land 6 of hole B, andring cl pro- 7o pointed out in the appended claim. jecting outwardly,itsouter face being slightly In order to enable others skilled in the artbeyond the outer face of head A. The plate towhich myinvention mostnearlyappertains .D is now placed in position with its inner to make anduse the same, Iwill now proceed edges resting on the outer face of ringd and to describeits construction and operation, refthe annular flange Eresting upon the outer 75 erence beinghad to the accompanying drawfaceof fiat ring 0 in an annular space heings, forming part hereof, inwhichtween ring d and wall 0 of the outer diame- Figure 1 is an outsideview of part of the ter of hole 5. The plate D is now secured by head ofa beer-barrel equipped with my inscrews and pressed tightly inward,expandvention. Fig. 2 is a plan view. Fig. 3 is a ing the ring 0inwardly and tightly clamping 8c perspective viewof that part of thehead withflat ring 0' thereof. \Vith the parts thus in 0 out thebushing. Fig. 4 is a detail perspecplace a spigot or bung will betightlyheld in tive view of the rubber bushing or packing place in holeB and all leakage prevented. ring. Fig. 5 is a similar view of theholding The walls of the hole will, not be bruised or or clamping plate.Fig. Gisasimilar view of broken, thereby avoiding the frequent ex- 85 abushing of metal used when tarring the inpense of new staves or headevery year, as is 5 side of the barrel. now necessary.

Like letters of reference mark the same parts YVhen it is desired to taror otherwise coat wherever they occurin the various figures of theinside of the barrel, I place a tapering the drawings. metal bushing Gin the hole, thus protecting 0 Referring to the drawings by letters, Ainthe rubber packing-ring from the coating madicates the head of a beeror other barrel for terial, said bushing having an enlarged outercontaining liquids provided withabung-hole annular flange H overlappingthe outer end or spigot-hole B of three different diameters, of therubber ring. the smallest being inside and the largest outlVhile lhaveillustrated and described what 95 side, the walls thereof being markeda, b, and I consider to be the best means now known 5 c and the flatannular lands between them (1 to me for carrying out my invention, I donot and e. wish to be understood as restricting myself Cindicatesabushingorpacking ring,ofrubto the exact forms and constructions shown,her or other analogous yielding elastic subas many slight changestherein or variations 10o stance, composed of three parts in a singletherefrom might suggest themselves to the pieceaninwardly-projectingring 5, fitting ordinary mechanic, all of which would be in the secondor middle diameter of the hole clearly included within the limit andscope of within walls I), a laterally projecting flat my invention. a

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by and clamping the plate Dresting on the out- Letters Patent of the United States, isside of ringd and provided with inwardly- The combination With the barrel-headhavprojecting annular flange E, surrounding 5 ing'hole B, of threedifferent and outwardly- 1 ring 61, and resting on ring 0' within walls0, [5

increasing diameters, walls a, b and 0 thereof 1 substantially asdescribed. being connected by lands d and e, of the yield- VILLIAMKIROHHOFF.

Havinf thus full 1 described in Y invention walls 0- and the rin clro'ectin outwardl Y 3 5 b 3 i 7 D O 5,

ing'elastic bushing or ring 0, consisting of a \Vitnesses: single piece,comprising rings b, c, d, the WM. A. BUDROE, :c ring D inclosed by wallsI), the rings 0' by MILTON lVHITE.

